Bay in Twlight

Creativity, expression, imagination, emotion everything put together can be called an “Art”. Art can be music, film, photography, literature, dance, and of course painting. At this point of time I am talking about my passion, which is painting, especially landscapes.

My inspirations are all the landscape artists. Landscape artists usually use trees, river, sky, ocean, mountains, bushes, flowers, and also other natural and man made medium to create a visually gratifying landscapes, which is practically acceptable. Landscape artists truly make ordinary piece of land into extra ordinary piece of art.

The word landscape is from the Dutch, landschap originally meaning a patch of cultivated ground, and then an image. The word entered the English language at the start of the 17th century, purely as a term for works of art; it was not used to describe real vistas before 1725. -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape_art

Few tips for landscape painting:

-Don’t include everything that you see in the landscape just because it is there in real life.

-Use your imagination and play with the color composition in the landscape.

-Give the foreground preference, meaning paint less detail in the background of the landscape than you do in the foreground.

-Get to know how to mix greens to quote Picasso: "They'll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but that particular green, never." -Need to practice mixing your own greens with all the different blue/yellow.

-Paint in different series, like Impressionist Claude Monet. Paint it in different lights, seasons, and moods.

http://painting.about.com/od/landscapes/a/landscapetips.htm

Well this is my imagination of San Francisco Bay from the Vista point. I couldn’t get my sight of from that beautiful sunset I saw on the bay. I had to try my best to put it on the canvas.